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Epic Games and Samsung Send 'Free Fortnite' Swag to Influencers With Galaxy Tab S7

Unless they are incredibly misguided, I don't understand why Epic continues with all these stunts. They are taking legal action against Apple, but want to play the troll as well. You would think their legal team would tell them to stop. Apple may or may not be right in taking 30%, but they also are under no obligation to have Epic on their App Store at all.
 
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These were almost certainly ordered back when this was a fresh thing, and global supply chain logistics have only just gotten these to ship to the intended recipients.
 
GumaRodak said:
Maybe it was already mentioned here but the brand of the jacket looks like alpha industries, which here in EU is considered as a nazi brand...
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That's the type of thing you need to be 100% sure about before you go throwing names like that around. Do you typically not know what you speak of? I guess your loyalty to the Apple tribe made you delusional to reality.
 
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timidpimpin said:
That's the type of thing you need to be 100% sure about before you go throwing names like that around. Do you typically not know what you speak of? I guess your loyalty to the Apple tribe made you delusional to reality.
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...and what if they're right? You certainly dont want to make yourself look like a jerk. :)
 
GumaRodak said:
Maybe it was already mentioned here but the brand of the jacket looks like alpha industries, which here in EU is considered as a nazi brand...
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What on earth are you on about?

AI is pretty much *the* brand for good quality bombers, all the fast-fashion companies have been cloning the MA-1 bomber for years because it's so popular.

I've stayed in both the UK and France and they were popular in both of those countries.
 
Every time I hear the word influencer I Want to throw up ...this is a concept that makes my skin crawl and a sign if our strange times. Are people so sheep like that these entitled YouTube and FB leeches actually do influence them?
 
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mac.ross said:
What on earth are you on about?

AI is pretty much *the* brand for good quality bombers, all the fast-fashion companies have been cloning the MA-1 bomber for years because it's so popular.

I've stayed in both the UK and France and they were popular in both of those countries.
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Same here in The Netherlands. You see those Alpha Industries bombers everywhere. I never would have guessed we have so many people living in Amsterdam who sympathize with Nazis. Colleagues, close friends and - yes - even myself included apparently since we own an Alpha Industries bomber or two. 😳
 
They have to do something for good PR because they’ve lost a ton of players this year. Minecraft is still gaining popularity and it’s over 10 years old, fortnite reached a peak and has never surpassed that peak since.

Teaming up with Samsung is akin to teaming up with dell in the 90s — it just strengthens androids “near monopoly” over the smartphone market Just like teaming up with dell would have strengthened the microsofty windows ”monopoly”.

Also, fortnite has never been free it’s always been about micro-transactions and furthermore is owned by a very dishonest company Epic Games who tried to essentially steal from Apple And/or not pay their fair share like everyone else who uses the App Store. In other words, epic games is run by criminals/people who choose to be evil.
 
Henriok said:
I went looking for the terms and Conditions on Galaxy Store too, and yes 30% is the standard, but Samsung is also open for individual revenue sharing schemes (which Apple mainly is not). SO.. Galaxy Store in this regard is probably good for Epic, but not those who Epic are championing, i.e. the small independent developer who won't likely get a bespoke cut of the cake.
I'm not surprised that Epic is willing to throw out their said principles if they can jab at Apple.
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Oh no please. Epic doesn’t care about small developers. They only are about themselves.
 
laptech said:
Apple did exactly thr same with their Airpod Max, gave them to influencers and reviewers but yet the bias is so obvious because this is an Apple forum that the practice of 'influencer' gets derided when it's Epic but nothing when Apple does it.
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completely different situations.
 
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mrat93 said:
You’re comparing a stationary device with a specific purpose (gaming/media) to the general-purpose computer that hundreds of millions of people walk around with every single day.

It’s also doable to sideload apps now, it’s just way more complicated than it needs to be and is more of a hacky solution rather than a legitimate sideload method.

Why not lock down macOS too? I’ve helped too many friends uninstall Mac crapware they manually installed. It would be a 300 IQ move for Apple to not allow people to download apps outside the App Store.
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That would destroy any reason to have a Mac. It would be pathetically stupid.
 
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